Scholarly Life of a Committed Technofile

Let’s just start with WOW! The folks who organized this workshop did a great job of providing resources, providing quick introductions and leaving time for play. As those of you who occasionally swing by and read my blog know, both my dissertation research as well as other assessment data from workshops I have facilitated indicates, faculty committed to technology generally just need more scheduled play time to keep up with technology. I felt completely at home with my laptop open, working stuff from this workshop, other materials, and asking questions along the way. Participating in this workshop has helped me stick to my “more open source” commitment.” Mini-me is only running open office. I’m trying to only use open office at home. I’m slowly playing with the other cool stuff they demoed (see the second link below). I’m very excited about them showing the portable apps stuff as well. I’m looking forward to demoing portable apps with a group of students who do not own their own computers.

• http://kairosnews.org/open-source-cccc
• http://wrecking.org/write/index.php?title=Workshop_on_FLOSS